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1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$891.53
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,083.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$365.70 with Partnership Health Plan vs $16,635.00 with BCBS - Anthem — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $365.70 | ↓ -59% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $365.70 | ↓ -59% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $401.89 | ↓ -55% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $401.89 | ↓ -55% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $449.81 | ↓ -50% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $449.81 | ↓ -50% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,041.50 | ↑ +17% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,312.29 | ↑ +47% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $1,749.72 | ↑ +96% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $1,833.04 | ↑ +106% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,853.87 | ↑ +108% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $1,916.36 | ↑ +115% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $1,937.19 | ↑ +117% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,041.34 | ↑ +129% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,062.17 | ↑ +131% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $11,084.00 | ↑ +1143% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $12,414.00 | ↑ +1292% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $14,472.00 | ↑ +1523% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $14,472.00 | ↑ +1523% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $14,472.00 | ↑ +1523% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $16,097.00 | ↑ +1706% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $16,635.00 | ↑ +1766% |
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Xpos opn fmrl eprst aor uni add-on at other California hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $791.45 | $365.70 – $1,978.62 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $1,574.88 | $10,413.00 – $11,046.00 |
| Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo | Mission Viejo | $1,814.88 | $4,666.00 – $13,634.00 |
| Dominican Hospital | Santa Cruz | $4,133.70 | $365.70 – $8,267.40 |
| California Hospital Medical Center | Los Angeles | $1,430.27 | $361.70 – $2,329.71 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Orange | Orange | $1,114.08 | $5,463.00 – $14,032.00 |
| REEDLEY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | Reedley | $122.55 | $6.01 – $652.02 |
| ST HELENA HOSPITAL | Vallejo | $153.60 | $70.00 – $685.57 |